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Upwork Outage History

Every past Upwork outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 199 Upwork outages since March 2022. The 49 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor April 7, 2026

April 2026: Issue with Find Work page

Detected Apr 7, 2026 11:56 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 7, 2026 2:48 PM EDT · Duration about 3 hours

Upwork experienced issues with their Find Work page where the My Feed, Best Matches, and Most Recent sections intermittently failed to load or displayed inconsistent results. The incident affected users' ability to browse job opportunities and lasted 2.9 hours. The service has been restored to normal functionality.

Minor April 7, 2026

April 2026: Issue with Find Work page

Detected Apr 7, 2026 11:11 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 7, 2026 11:27 AM EDT · Duration 16 minutes

Upwork experienced issues with their Find Work page where the Best Matches and Most Recent sections intermittently failed to load or displayed inconsistent results. The problem affected users' ability to browse job opportunities through the platform's main job discovery feature. The incident was resolved after 16 minutes of investigation and remediation.

Minor March 19, 2026

March 2026: Payment and Checkout Issues Under Investigation

Detected Mar 19, 2026 11:42 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 19, 2026 1:25 PM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

Upwork experienced payment and checkout difficulties affecting some customers, including issues with funding and activating milestones. The incident impacted other site features and lasted approximately 1.7 hours. The team actively investigated and worked to resolve the issue.

Minor March 9, 2026

March 2026: Intermittent errors for some platform features

Detected Mar 9, 2026 11:25 AM EDT · Resolved Mar 9, 2026 3:54 PM EDT · Duration about 4 hours

Upwork experienced intermittent access disruptions and errors affecting multiple platform features including login, messaging, payments, job search, proposals, and hiring functions for 4.5 hours. The incident impacted core functionality across the platform, causing service interruptions for users. The team investigated and resolved the issue without requiring any user action.

Minor March 2, 2026

March 2026: Identifying and Investigating an Issue related to Transaction History page error and withdrawal Issues

Detected Mar 2, 2026 12:29 PM EST · Resolved Mar 2, 2026 2:52 PM EST · Duration about 2 hours

Upwork experienced a technical issue affecting multiple payment-related pages, preventing some freelancers from accessing their transaction history or withdrawing funds, and blocking some clients from accessing billing and payment pages. Users encountered errors stating "Due to technical issues page data is not fully loaded, try again later" when trying to access affected areas. The incident lasted 2.4 hours and impacted various site features including the Get Paid page, transaction history, billing pages, and other account areas.